Report: GUNS N' ROSES - Local Lafayette Residents React To Axl Rose's Chinese Democracy
December 1, 2008, 15 years ago
JCOnline.com has issued the following report:
Chris Vester is only 24 and a 2003 graduate of Jefferson High School.
Yet the Jefferson radio and television assistant is often grilled by his students about the school's most famous - and notorious - student, Axl Rose.
"They ask me 'Did you know him?' They want to know stories of when he went to Jeff," Vester said.
But Vester wasn't even born when Rose left Lafayette for Los Angeles. He was still in diapers when Rose and fellow Lafayette native Izzy Stradlin (Jeff Isbell) formed GUNS N' ROSES and released Appetite For Destruction, the most successful debut album for a rock band of all time. 1991 brought Use Your Illusion while Vester was in elementary school, the last full-length album of new music from GN'R - well, basically now just Rose - until November 23rd.
That was the day Chinese Democracy was finally released, and a week later, Vester and thousands of other rock fans around the world are still digesting the hugely hyped album, along with that leftover turkey.
Vester admitted having "low expectations" of the album after reading about it and hearing leaks on the Internet. But now that he actually bought the album, he was pleasantly surprised by Chinese Democracy overall.
"It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be," Vester said. "It's nothing like old Guns N' Roses but that wasn't what I expected it to be.
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